Comments on: Easy Way to Create Simple Linux Packages http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/23/easy-way-to-create-simple-linux-packages/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:11:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: IceBrain http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/23/easy-way-to-create-simple-linux-packages/#comment-10230 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:08:41 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/23/easy-way-to-create-simple-linux-packages/#comment-10230 That's great, I've used checkinstall also (great tool btw) but I never understood the maze that it is to make a simple deb. I usually just put the scripts in a folder in my /home (usually hidden) and put it in the PATH, I don't like to mix my small and humble scripts with normal binary blobs. Thank you for writing about this tool, I really like it! That’s great, I’ve used checkinstall also (great tool btw) but I never understood the maze that it is to make a simple deb. I usually just put the scripts in a folder in my /home (usually hidden) and put it in the PATH, I don’t like to mix my small and humble scripts with normal binary blobs.

Thank you for writing about this tool, I really like it!

]]> by: jambarama http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/23/easy-way-to-create-simple-linux-packages/#comment-10228 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:33:31 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/23/easy-way-to-create-simple-linux-packages/#comment-10228 Much better than the kludge I've used. Before debian was as friendly as it is now, I had spent years using redhat & mandrake (before it was mandriva). This was in my more technical days too, so I learned how to make an rpm. I understand this formerly arcane art is now a bit more user friendly too, but I basically did <a href="http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/build.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>. When I switched to debian, and now I'd never use anything but debian, I had all these custom rpms I used, and I wasn't even sure I had kept all my source. It was nothing big, mostly scripts and handy extensions, but they were important to me. So then I found alien - it converted my rpms to debs, and they worked! So the once or twice in the last 3 years I've made a deb, I rolled everything into an rpm, like I was used to, then used alien to make it a deb. A horrible horrible kludge, but one that worked every time for me. However, this is much easier. Great post. Much better than the kludge I’ve used. Before debian was as friendly as it is now, I had spent years using redhat & mandrake (before it was mandriva). This was in my more technical days too, so I learned how to make an rpm. I understand this formerly arcane art is now a bit more user friendly too, but I basically did this.

When I switched to debian, and now I’d never use anything but debian, I had all these custom rpms I used, and I wasn’t even sure I had kept all my source. It was nothing big, mostly scripts and handy extensions, but they were important to me. So then I found alien - it converted my rpms to debs, and they worked!

So the once or twice in the last 3 years I’ve made a deb, I rolled everything into an rpm, like I was used to, then used alien to make it a deb. A horrible horrible kludge, but one that worked every time for me. However, this is much easier.

Great post.

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